Posted on 03/13/2019 6:42:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
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QUANTUM TIME Scientists have built world’s first ‘time machine’ in experiment which defies the laws of physics
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Lead researcher Dr Gordey Lesovik said by putting scattered electrons back into their original shape they had effectively created a state which went against the 'direction of time'
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SCIENTISTS have built the world’s first time machine — sort of.
Working with electrons in the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics, they first created the equivalent of a break for a game of pool.
The “balls” scattered and, according to the laws of physics, should have appeared to split in a haphazard way.
But researchers managed to make them reform in their original order — looking as if they were turning back time.
Lead researcher Dr Gordey Lesovik, of Moscow’s Laboratory of the Physics of Quantum Information, said: “We have artificially created a state that evolves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time.”
His team used a rudimentary quantum computer, which carries information on subatomic particles. He hopes their findings, in journal Scientific Reports, will help improve processing power.
Not quite Dr Who, but even Time Lords had to start somewhere . . .
So how does it work? Well the "time machine" is actually a rudimentary quantum computer made up of electron qubits.
A qubit is a the basic unit of quantum information – a unit that represents one, zero, and both one and zero at the same time.
Researchers ran an "evolution program", which caused the qubits to enter a complicated changing pattern of ones and zeroes.
And during this process, the order was lost – like hitting balls at the start of a game of pool.
A separeate program then modified the state of this quantum computer so that it evolved backwards, returning from chaos to order.
This allowed the qubits to return to their original starting point.
Scientists were able to perform this so-called "time reversal" successfully 85% of the time with two qubits, and had a 50% success rate with three qubits.
Interesting. How do they deal with probabilistic nature quantum mechanics?
Good question.............I just wish I knew what it meant...............
This is a horribly written article. This is not a time machine in any sense of the word or concept. It does not defy the laws of physics. The billiard ball set up is a rouse not even close to a good analogy
You want to defy the laws of physics??? Open a vacuum chamber and watch the atmosphere disappear. Such nonsense
They are supposedly successful half the time. Gee that’s what I want in an info carrier
Genesis 11
6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Ugh. Gronk’s granddad.
Great Scott!
“I wonder if this one needs 1.21 jigawatts...”
It probably needs a few billion dollars.
they had effectively created a state which went against the ‘direction of time’
Doesn’t socialism do that already?
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Funny one.
Why aren’t Bernie, AOC and the millennials laughing?
No sense of humor. Thankfully they are not in total power in 2019.
Trump could use that machine to go back in time and pick anybody other than Sessions for AG.
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Love it.
Imagine DJT saying “Jeff, we need you right where you are in the Senate for now. Without you a special election might get the Dems a seat in Alabama.” Then no Mueller appointed. Grumbling by out of power Dems but nothing gets an investigation going.
Except the one the new AG sets up to investigate transfer of Uranium and certain security info. on hard drives in Chappaqua.
Hate to wake up from that dream.
Which is why the moon was recently declared as being "part of the earth's atmosphere"... (NASAgiggle)
Well, since this is coming from the UK Sun and not The Journal of Quantum Physics, my money is on C. It's being misreported.
Uncle Rico will be happy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LHAlcrTRA
Sometimes folks just go nuts
Maybe those Egyptians were ON to something. Heliopolis.
What did Bernini know and when did he know it?
wiki: "The obelisk was originally erected at Heliopolis, Egypt, by an unknown pharaoh..."
Heliopolis (wiki):
"Its native name was I͗wnw ("The Pillars"), whose exact pronunciation is uncertain because ancient Egyptian recorded only consonantal values. Its traditional Egyptological transcription is Iunu but it appears in biblical Hebrew as Ôn (אן) and Āwen (און), leading some scholars to reconstruct its pronunciation as *Āwanu. Variant transcriptions include Awnu and Annu."
Because, well then there's that "cipher decipherer" name, where the word key (Hebrew mafte'ach) appears as the last letters of the name phrase in bold:
Genesis 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Osnat the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
It goes ON. Puns for the win!
Truly yours...The Doctor
In before they figure out how to use this for porn...
After the break, did the scattered balls physically regroup into the triangular form they had before the break, at the correct spot on the table? Did the cue ball return to its original spot. Or did a resulting video of the break merely reverse itself and merely DEPICT such a scene? All the difference in the world.
I agree. And that is what they probably did but with imperfect knowledge of the state of their system.
The “Time Mooshine”
Is the best!
Idiocracy
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